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REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS
AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION FROM THE RIGHTS OF MAN TO ROBESPIERRE |
| By: |
Jonathan Israel |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£32.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691151725 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691151724 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
18 March, 2014 |
| Pages: |
888 |
| Description: |
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers - that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. This book restores the Revolution's intellectual history to its rightful central role. |
| Synopsis: |
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers-that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture-almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution's intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution.In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas-not their fulfillment. |
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15 halftones. 7 line illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American |
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Returnable |
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